Search Results: Titles starting with D from Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

8vo. 304 pp. Original linen-backed blue-paper boards, quite worn, original spine label; interior with some minor staining and foxing. Overall a wonderful copy.
First edition. Brackenridge (1786–1871) was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and politician. He traveled extensively in both North and South America due to his various roles in the U.S. government, often serving as a diplomat. The first section of his travel account consists of a description of the newly acquired territory of Louisiana. Brackenridge details the history of the territory, including the Native Americans indigenous to the area, as well as the natural history and resources there. His expertise on the region earned him the position of district attorney in the Orleans territory. The second section is a journal of his expedition with fur trader Manuel Lisa up the Missouri River in 1811. He describes the fur trade as well as the founding of the Missouri Fur Company. Overall, Brackenridge's text was one of… Read More

Folio. [xiv], 295, [1]; 302, [1]; 292 pp. Without the first and final blanks as in most copies. Recent calf in an antique style, spine tooled in gilt with a red morocco label, top edge gilt; interior in excellent condition. With a fascinating provenance (see below).
First edition of one of the most famous and fascinating early modern travel accounts, one of the great seventeenth-century works of its kind. Moryson singles out all the "monuments in each place, worth the seeing." A perceptive traveler; as an example he appreciated how war, in this case the French wars of religion, could exercise an inflationary effect on prices. He gives detailed accounts of his travel expenses, including the cost of inns, food, costumes, as well as the values of coins. And he eloquently boasts of his skill at outwitting thieves. The second part of the work is given over to the rebellion of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. O'Neill (1550-1616) led the resistance against the English forces seeking to… Read More

Boston: [Harvard Medical School], 1858. Engraved diploma on vellum. Signed by Hayward's committee, which included Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-94) as professor of Anatomy & Physiology; Edward H[ammond] Clarke (1820-77) as Professor of Natural Medicine; John Bacon (fl. 1858) as Professor of Chemistry and John Ware (1796-1864) as Professor of Medical Theory and Practice. Also signed by James Walker (1794-1874), President of Harvard from 1853-60.John McLean Hayward (1837-86) became a military surgeon three years after receiving this diploma, serving as assistant surgeon in the Massachusetts Twelfth Regiment of Volunteers. He was present at the Battles of Cedar Mountain, Grovetown (near Bull Run) and Fredericksburg. After the War he opened a successful surgical practice in Wayland, Massachusetts. His dissertation was on Phthisis, a malady that afflicted numerous soldiers during the Civil War.

Thirteen volume collection of music (over 60 titles). The compositions include pieces for the voice, piano, violin, and cello, and range from sonatas to airs to operas. The majority of the works, many with fine engravings, were printed in Britain from many notable music publishers. The publication dates vary from the late eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. The collection contains works by classical composers like Mozart, Handel, and Beethoven as well as poets like Felicia Hemans, Lord Byron, and Robert Burns. Overall, the books offer an interesting survey in the history of British music publishing, the printing of classical compositions, and the collecting of music. A complete list of all compositions is available upon request. I. Countess of Lonsdale Music Collection Two volumes bound for the Library of the Countess of Lonsdale. The first volume contains eight violin compositions for sonatas, and the second volume has the corresponding parts for the piano. Both contain the earliest… Read More

4to. With 8 large folding engraved plates. Directions to the binder on lower edge of the last leaf verso. Nicely bound in blue boards; the figures of flowers are bright with excellent impressions.
First edition of this extremely rare and little known work on tulips by Hill. He here gives a detailed account of understanding the process of nature, as well as directions on how to double the flowers of many plants, notably choosing the tulip because the parts are large and plain. The last plate is on the Veronica (Speedwell).
Hill (1716?-1775), though best known for his botanical works with which he introduced the classification system of Linnaeus into England, was certainly one of the most controversial figures in eighteenth-century England. He styled himself "Sir John" after he was awarded the Order of Vasa by the King of Sweden in recognition of his book entitled Vegetable system. He was an apothecary, actor, playwright, botanist and a voluminous writer. His works include publications on… Read More

Albany: E. & E. Hosford, 1821. Text tables throughout. Contemporary calf; bottom edge chipped, interior browned and spotted, a few tears, and the name Jesse Thompson written over preliminary leaves, usual for a much-used textbook. Later (stereotype) edition of an extremely popular textbook. The text covers the different branches of arithmetic, computation of money, currencies, tables of compound interest, weight and measures, and other transactions for business.

New York: Doubleday and Co, 1970. FIRST EDITION. Original black cloth, dust jacket in excellent condition, mylar protective cover. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: "For Phyllis, Best wishes, Marge Piercy September 16, 1981". An excellent copy.

New York: Random House, 1947. FIRST EDITION. Original red cloth, dust jacket in good condition with a small chip to the upper right corner and the top of the spine, protective mylar cover.

New York, Dallas, San Francisco: Saybrook Publishing Co, 1987. FIRST EDITION. Gilt green and beige cloth, illustrated dust jacket in perfect condition. Inscribed by the author on the title: "For Martha-In friendship, life & imagination! Joanne Leedom-Ackerman February 6, 1988". A perfect copy from the collection of Martha Sattler.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. SECOND EDITION. With half-title and 2 page publisher's advertisements. Heliotype frontispiece portrait of author, 1 hand-coloured folding map, text illustrations and diagrams. Original green cloth. Second edition of Wallace's treatise on the theory of natural selection. This is Wallace's restatement of the origin of species on the same general lines as were adopted by Darwin, but from the standpoint reached after nearly thirty years of discussion and with many new facts and the advocacy of many new as well as old theories. Notwithstanding the care taken to point out the differences between his and Darwin's theory, Wallace claims for this book "the position of being the advocate of pure Darwinism.

Munich: Ernst Reinhardt, 1905. FIRST EDITION. Original cloth, faded. Bookplate of Otto Vernon Darbishire, plus his signature dated 1906 and the signature of E. Rimin dated 1939. First edition of Pauly's most important work which represented the sum of his efforts over thirty years in evolutionary theory. "Pauly's zoological lectures reflected his dissatisfaction with Darwin's explanantion of the evolutionary process . . . stressing the psychic factor that entered into the Lamarckian doctrine"(DSB).

London: Andrew Melrose, 1909. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece photograph. Original cloth. Signature of Lindsay dated April, 1910. First edition. Thomson, a Scotch biologist, brings Darwin, his work and the issues that have arisen based on his theory of evolution, up to date. Thomson provides a foundation by explaining Darwin's concepts and doctrines, and expands them with descriptions of current work by other authors, as well as his own philosophy. Thomson was well-known for his attempts to reconcile science and religion.

London: Imago Publishing Co, 1946. First edition printed in England. Blue cloth, dust jacket preserved in excellent condition. First edition printed in England from the original 1936 Vienna printing. This is Anna Freud's famous theoretical work on the ego and its defense mechanisms.

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925. LATER EDITION. With nearly 500 text illustrations . Publisher's cloth, author and title on front cover; interior excellent. From the library of the Mount Wilson Observatory with the presentation bookplate of George Ellery Hale and Hale's small stamp on the fly-leaf.

Berlin: Carl Habel, 1885. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Original printed boards, backed in black cloth, some light foxing, stamp of the library of the Lees-Museum in Amsterdam on title and front cover, bookplate of Dr. Charles A. Kofoid. First separate edition of the author's important treatise on the thermometer and thermometry. Ernst Gerland (1838-1910), German professor of physics at Cassel, was best known for his histories of physics and experimental physics.

Leipzig, Vienna, Zürich: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1924. Cloth-backed boards, corners reinforced; interior in good condition with some discoloration along margins, some pages unopened. Bookplate of University of Southern California School of Medicine with a small shelf label on the spine.

Leipzig and Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1915. With frontispiece portrait of Minkowski and text figures. Boards, spine and corners frayed and cracking. Sammelband containing the original papers on the special and general theories of relativity with a foreword by O. Blumenthal. It is in Minkowski's famous paper, Raum und Zeit (Space and time), that he proposes the concept of time as the fourth dimension and initiates a mathematical study that became the basis of the later development of the theory. Included here is the re-issue of that work by Einstein and Lorentz, with notes by A. Sommerfeld, published after Minkowski's untimely death, along with other papers by the two scientists whose works led to the abandonment of space and time as separate entities. Weil, 59; see Printing & the Mind of Man, 401.

Amsterdam: Johann Wolters, 1687. LATER EDITION. Etched frontispiece and portrait, full-page etched plate of medical instruments, half-page etched plate of a spinal disc. Contemporary stiff vellum, manuscript spine title, red edges. Contemporary and later manuscript notes and concordances throughout. A very good copy.

Padua: Cadorinum, 1686. FIRST EDITION. 2 engraved plates on one sheet, folded. Contemporary binder's boards, manuscript spine title. A fine copy in original condition.

Paris: Andreas Wechel, 1555. FIRST EDITIONS. One nearly full-page woodcut astronomical chart and 57 half-page letterpress star charts, letterpress diagram. Modern wrappers. Contemporary manuscript highlighting and annotations throughout.